Investing.com – Canada equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Consumer Discretionary, IT and Energy sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Toronto, the S&P/TSX Composite rose 0.49%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P/TSX Composite were Birchcliff Energy Ltd . (TO:BIR), which rose 5.41% or 0.20 points to trade at 3.90 at the close. BlackBerry Ltd (TO:BB) added 5.06% or 0.81 points to end at 16.83 and First Quantum Minerals Ltd . (TO:FM) was up 4.61% or 0.80 points to 18.16 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Eldorado Gold Corporation (TO:ELD), which lost 5.98% or 0.07 points to trade at 1.10 in late trade. Torex Gold Resources Inc (TO:TXG) declined 5.52% or 0.530 points to end at 9.070 and Pretium Resources Inc. (TO:PVG) shed 5.40% or 0.49 points to 8.58.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 591 to 551 and 113 ended unchanged on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
The S&P/TSX 60 VIX, which measures the implied volatility of S&P/TSX Composite options, was down 3.52% to 13.71.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.26% or 3.50 to $1353.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.55% or 0.36 to hit $65.52 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.47% or 0.33 to trade at $69.48 a barrel.
CAD/USD was up 0.30% to 0.7777, while CAD/EUR fell 0.49% to 0.6246.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.53% at 88.63.